On an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that aired, oh, about a year ago, Larry David lectured an airplane seatmate about what not to wear on a flight. “A little traveling tip: Try not to wear shorts. Not all that attractive to look at for five hours.” Which I mention…
Doubtful Andrea’s liveblogging today’s meeting of the council’s Ad Hoc Legislative Committee, fascinating though it may be. Because today’s the day the council gets its Federal Legislative Update and the Development of the City’s Legislative Program for the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature, for which the city pays big…
Well, I was about to tell you to tune into the tax-hike briefing, which was about to get underway, like, five minutes ago. But then the damnedest thing happened: As the briefing was getting going, there was much giggling. Much guffawing. Then, the briefing stopped. Then, the mayor interrupted and…
City council’s back after its lunch break, and if you’ve got a few minutes I’d recommend tuning in to the Park and Rec budget briefing. Mike Rawlings, the former homeless czar who’s now the Park Board president, is leading the presentation, and moments ago he singled out Fair Park. As…
Until Saturday, only a few thousand folks had taken a look at the Vimeo offering titled “Quakecon 2010: Attendee Blunder of the Year.” But that number skyrocketed after AutoBlog, then Jalopnik, took a closer peek at the contents of the video, which was filmed at the Hilton Anatole a few…
Well, that was quick: Patrick just sent word that Oncor’s ponying up one … million … dollars to the Dallas Parks Foundation, every cent of which will go toward the rec centers, whose operating hours are on Mary Suhm’s chopping block. More to come. As in: What the what’s a…
Patrick’s at the mayor’s How to Save Park and Rec press conference, and while we wait for word about that big-time initiative we were promised this morning, here’s a little lunchtime respite: The late, great Ronnie Dawson on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in ’95. Somewhere amongst my stash of…
Looks like Chicago-based Mercy for Animals has a week’s worth of Dallas events on its schedule, beginning at noon today with a go-vegetarian leafleting at the West End DART station and a meat-free lunch deal at Bliss Raw Cafe. And Friday they’ll return to the West End DART stop, where…
This morning, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sends word: City Auditor Craig Kinton has wrapped his look-see at parking revenues from Dallas Summer Musicals’ productions at the Fair Park Music Hall. And there’s one major problem: For the last couple of years, the city didn’t have any idea how…
I knew there was a reason I keep watching Entourage — to keep up with the parade of Dallas sports team owners parading through the office of Ari Gold. Jerry Jones has already appeared twice: once to tell Ari maybe he’s just the man to bring a pro football team…
At 9 this morning, the council will yet again sit down to debate the budget, and most of the briefing will likely focus on cuts to Park and Rec, which is looking to lose around $15.4 million out of its budget in the coming fiscal year (from $64,266,766 to $48,855,266),…
There’s a big ol’ story on the front page of this morning’s New York Times in which Charles and Sam Wyly insist the Securities and Exchange Commission — which recently charged the two with moving and hiding $550 million in “undisclosed gains” — ain’t got nothin’ on them. The same…
Well, that’s not true. It’s not everything — just 29 Qs and As and a few handy-dandy exhibits provided by City Manager Mary Suhm in a memo distributed last night. And you didn’t ask the questions — the council did following the last budget workshop, another of which is scheduled…
Three, almost four years ago I first mentioned it — Jeff Beck at Lou and Ann Bovis’s joint on Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue in ’68, with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood among those rounding out the band (Mickey Waller too, on drums). Not so hard to find as I…
Ten days before Christmas we broke the news: The Dallas Independent School District has purchased the old Oak Cliff Christian Church with the intentions of razing the 94-year-old 10th Street structure to make way for an athletic complex accompanying the W.H. Adamson High School redo. But court hearings and negotiations…
So now we know what the Dallas Police Department is charging Michael Laurence Browne with following yesterday’s slow ride that landed on the Love Field runway: evading arrest in a vehicle, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, aggravated robbery and an outstanding traffic ticket. That’s the laundry list…
Once upon a time, the City Attorney’s Office had hoped to get the Museum of the American Railroad outta Fair Park by August 1. But that was way back in February — before the myriad court hearings and legal filings that ultimately led to Judge Martin Hoffman setting a January…
I’ve been trying to tell you: Word from inside City Hall is that a tax hike of at least one cent “actually might happen.” The reason: That’s what The People are demanding at these budget town halls, if only to keep the rec centers open and the parks mowed. And…
Long story short: Upon learning from Zac Crain this morning of the death of Jimmy Wehba — that’s Garland’s own Skandor Akbar to you and my grandfather, who spent every Saturday night tuned to wrestling on Channel 11 so way back when — I spent way too much time stumbling…
No doubt you caught at least some of The Dallas Morning News’s recently wrapped three-part series on Texas’s trouble with properly punishing drunken drivers. Probation instead of prison; back behind the wheel instead of behind bars. Says Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in a missive his campaign sent out…
It takes all of this long to find someone insisting that Emmitt Smith ain’t all that. “Smith’s record is overrated.” See, that did not take long. And. And. And. The common knock on the Dallas Cowboy: “Had the best offensive line of all time in front of him.” Imagine if…
This is what the Google Machine tells me about Dallas defense attorney Jim Moore: He’s a namesake in the Oak Lawn firm of Moore, Grant & Barrett. He’s a Hillcrest and SMU graduate (just like my father, hmmm). He is indeed eligible to practice law in the state of Texas…
